]]>By: gtronhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398851
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398851maybe there is a need to realize that about 90% of the folks out in the real world are not up to speed on all/most matters tech… most here keep up, but this is a small population, and tech moves too fast for the masses. i’ve made award winning websites, and have NEVER used a flash drive! OMG! there’s too much info out there and it becomes tiresome to those who don’t need it – i know a guy with a 2500$ macbook pro – he only uses it for email.
]]>By: TheChickenAndTheRicehttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398356
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398356I hate those kids who yell “F4KE!!11″ as much as the rest of us, but it strikes me as more likely this was a deliberately made cake by some funny people who then had a funny idea to post a funny story on the interwebs.

Just sayin’.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398107
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398107This exact thing happened to me and some friends a few years back at a Wal-Mart except involving a computer disc.

They were advertising their big ‘we print photos on cakes’ and when we asked if they could read a disc and get the image off that she went back to check and then came back and told us she could.

We then come back to a cake printed with a scanned photo of the disc.

]]>By: heydemann3http://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398108
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398108As a professional baker I can easily relate to this-the counter staff had some odd methods of telling us what was supposed to be on the cakes. And the decorator was probably working on a different shift, etc.
As for the ink-jet printed images, the system is kind of pricey, and the paper used is an edible rice paper that basically melts into the frosting. If it doesn’t melt it can be peeled off. It’s just about tasteless.
I just hope the poor recipient was able to laugh about the situation, not throw a tantrum.
]]>By: heydemann3http://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398110
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398110Actually having read the post at Cake Wrecks-a wonderful site-it’s even more understandable. The counter person couldn’t even be bothered to make sure the decorator knew which image to use, or what was going on. Not uncommon at all, alas. Still pretty dang funny.
]]>By: Nawelhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398381
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398381WONDERFUL! hahahahahahhaha!

(mmm… fake? maybe the story, the cake might be real and made for a super-geek dude)

Don’t they have edible-ink inkjet printers for cakes now? Don’t you HAVE to give them an image electronically for them to use one?

]]>By: Paul Merrillhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397901
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397901This reminds me of when I brought a disc into Kinko’s a few years back to get some business cards printed. When I came to pick them up, they handed me a black and white photocopy of a business card. Pure genius!
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398671
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398671Thing I don’t get is how come the flash drive is so massive and the cake is so tiny?! Barely a mouthful, surely.
]]>By: Boeotianhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398164
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398164#9, #12: imagine if instead you got from them CDs with ISO 9001 files!
]]>By: Brainsporehttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397909
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397909Funny mix-up, but who shows up to a bakery with a digital storage device instead of a printout? It’s a confectionery, not a Kinko’s.
]]>By: angusmhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397913
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397913The territory is not the map. Or something like that.
]]>By: Stefan Joneshttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397914
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397914In turn I credit Dr. Rob Downes for sending me the link.

There are all sorts of variations of this debacle. Once an employer ordered a batch of CD-ROM discs. We sent the fulfillment house an ISO file . . . a disk image.

They were delivered with the fancy label done up right . . . and the ISO 9660 file as the only contents.

]]>By: Gary54http://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397922
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397922I am reminded of the movie “Spinal Tap” and the stage prop plans for Stonehenge drawn on a napkin.
]]>By: LBhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398952
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398952There is no need to realize anything – read the OP. The bakery told them to bring in the image on a jump drive. Period.
]]>By: JoeKickasshttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397932
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397932@Brainspore
What would they do with a printout, glue it to the top of the cake? Yummy.
Perhaps you should read blog post associated with the picture.. the bakery asked for the file on a datastorage device.
]]>By: eclectrohttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398460
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398460This is complete awesomeness, it has to be better than the image on the flash drive!
]]>By: TheChickenAndTheRicehttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398716
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398716Nawel – yes, that’s what I meant. I don’t doubt the authenticity of the cake. The story, on the other hand, is a little too cute.
]]>By: Orkyhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397956
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397956 #8 posted by Stefan Jones Author Profile Page, February 3, 2009 1:57 PM

> … and the ISO 9660 file as the only contents.

I got some CD-Rs that way from some IT guys once…

]]>By: adamhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397958
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397958As someone who occasionally has digital workflow handoff issues, I nearly fell off my chair.
]]>By: dross1260http://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397959
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397959At least he didn’t ask for it to “scale”. Would have missed out on all that “grey” icing. ANd where’s the original file? Did it go well with the green piping?
]]>By: DukeOGluehttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398227
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398227They should just connect the flash drive cake to the PC cake and get the actual image cake from inside it.
]]>By: cfurrowhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-398757
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-398757Reminds me of the time I was getting a t-shirt printed, and had special instructions in the email message. So, in the “notes” area, I wrote “see email”. When I got the shirt, weeks later, it only had the words “see email” printed on the front.
]]>By: Bloodboilerhttp://boingboing.net/2009/02/03/bakers-make-cake-wit.html#comment-397995
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-397995How many iPhone cakes have you seen on blogs?

What if these stupid misunderstandings happened because of the number of strange cakes that are ordered.
Maybe cake makers write so many strange inside jokes and obscure quotes on cakes that writing “It is a grill” on a cake is just another day at the bakery.